Mathias Skogly Russnes

Mathias Skogly Russnes is a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. His doctoral research investigates semantic prosody in corpus linguistics, specifically exploring the hidden quality of this linguistic phenomenon through empirical analysis of English language patterns.

His educational background includes:

• Master's degree in English language, University of Oslo (2020)
• Practical-pedagogical education, University of Oslo (2017)
• Bachelor's degree in Nordic Studies, University of Oslo (2016)
• Bachelor's degree in General Literature, University of Oslo (2015)
• Year-long unit in German, University of Bergen (2022)

Russnes' research centers on corpus linguistics and English language structures, with specialized focus on phraseology, semantic prosody, and register-sensitive linguistic patterns. His work examines how contextual meaning emerges from lexical combinations, particularly analyzing polysemy and football terminology as case studies for broader linguistic principles.

His recent publications reveal a concentrated trajectory in semantic analysis, with the 2025 article using football terminology to demonstrate polysemy-register connections in semantic prosody, while the 2024 ICAME Journal paper establishes foundational links between semantic prosody, transfer, and historical change through corpus evidence.

As an active member of the English Language and Corpus Linguistics Research group at UiO, Russnes contributes to collaborative linguistic analysis projects focusing on empirical corpus methodologies and English language evolution.